Sir William JardineThe Natural History of Humming Birds Volumes I & II The Naturalist's Library Ornithology EDINBURGH: W H LIZARS, 1833 1st edition in the original publisher's binding, with 64 hand coloured plates. Humming birds Vol I was the first volume issued in the Naturalist's Library, and this copy of Vol I has a 'Notice of the Naturalist's Library' by Professor Rennie extolling the virtues of the new series, making it a first issue. Both volumes are in their original state with the publisher's (now brown) cloth binding with gilt titles to spine, and green endpapers with the Naturalists' Library watermark to the front endpaper. Both volumes have some fading to the spine and edges, and light pulling to the spine. Corners lightly bumped. Vol I has a couple of small idents to the side of the boards. Vol I has an armorial bookplate of Sir Henry Jardine (1766-1851, related to Sir William Jardine) to the front pastedown. Contents: notice for the series; adverts for North American Ornithology; half title; frontispiece black and white portrait of Linnaeus; hand coloured vignette title page; one further title page; contents listing; advert; Memoir of Linnaeus; and text with black and white illustrations and 34 hand coloured plates - 147 pages in all; publisher's adverts to rear. Vol.II: half title; black and white frontispiece portrait of Pennant; hand coloured vignette title page; 3 further title pages (one for insertion into Vol I); contents listing; advert; Memoir of Pennant; text with 30 hand coloured plates; synopsis; index; and publisher's advert - 166 pages in all. Both volumes are generally clean. Vol I has some lettering and a little grubbiness to the front pastedown and some light unobtrusive foxing in places. The rear free endpaper has the imprint of some figures. Vol II has some offsetting and spotting to tissue guards and the occasional spotting to plates. Both are very good copies. Please ask for additional images if you would like to further assess condition.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, LONDON.[SWAN RIVER COLONY] The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Volume the first. 1831. Second edition. London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1833. Octavo, rebound in twentieth century green cloth boards with gilt lettered spine, original printed brown wrappers bound in (some creasing and stains), pp xi, 264, with 8 engraved maps and plates (some folding) at rear, including the folding map Western Australia from the latest Documents received in the Colonial Office, 1832, engraved by J. and C. Walker (short tear at gutter, stained at edges and lightly foxed), followed by 16 pages of publisher's advertisements; text pages with occasional spotting, most pages uncut; maps and plates and original lower wrapper with water stain at top edges.
The second printing of the first volume of the RGS's esteemed Journal, which contains several important papers read to the Society relating to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia, only recently established in 1829. The papers include an extract from Stirling's Report entitled State of the Colony of Swan River, 1st January, 1830, read by John Barrow (1-16); General View of the Botany of the Vicinity of Swan River, by Richard Brown (17-21); and Description of the Natives of King George's Sound (Swan River Colony) and adjoining country, written by Mr. Scott Nind, and communicated by Richard Brown (33-51), which includes a very early Noongar (Nyungar) vocabulary (47-51). The folding map, which is based on the explorations of Ensign Dale, Captain Bannister, Lieutenant Preston, and Captains Collie and Currie, shows all of these explorers' tracks, annotated with sightings. The map is one of the earliest that relate to the Swan River Colony (obviously, with its date of 1832, it was not contained in the first printing of the Journal for 1831; but it was published in the Journal for 1832, as well as this second printing of the first volume).

Beaumont, WilliamExperiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion Printed by F.P. Allen, 1833-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Three woodcut engravings in text, 280 pp. A few scattered ink marginalia from Henry Bowditch correcting Beaumont's work. Also includes a typed, 8 page history of Beaumont's work by Leartus Connor, "American Medical Biographies," 1920., 83-85 pp. Octavo. Bound in full, blind tooled sheepskin. A pioneering work on digestion, based on experiments with patient Alexis St. Martin, whose stomach was exposed by a gunshot wound. Beaumont (1785-1853), a United States Army surgeon, was the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach in a living person. During the patient's recovery, through a permanent fistula, Beaumont was able to observe the process of digestion. "...Beaumont was the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach in vivo. His work on the subject was the most important before Pavlov." - Garrison-Morton 989; Dibner, Heralds of Science 130; Fulton, pp. 186-190; Horblit 10; Lilly, p. 185; Wellcome 2:123; Waller 805; Norman Library 152; Norman, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 61. <br> Interesting provenance: Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840-1911; Harvard Med. Professor, co-founder, first president of the American Physiological Society, later Dean of Harvard Med) and his son, Dr. Harold Bowditch (1883-1964), with Harold's antiquarian bookplate and an inscription. Harold Bowditch graduated from Harvard Med in 1907 and interned at Mass. General. The Bowditch's were descendants of Col. Timothy Pickering, US Secretary of State and Nathaniel Bowditch. <br> Also includes related ephemera: A hand written letter from Frances N. A. Whitman, Harvard University School of Medicine and Public Health, dated 1930 to Dr. Bowditch discussing the return of this book (which was Bowditch's father's copy) and two pictures used with the book in a display at Harvard. The two color pictures from Harvard's display are also included. Also includes ephemera related to the book collected by Bowditch.

Kinalizade, Alaaddin Ali Çelebi.Ahlâk-i alâ&#146;î. Bulaq (Cairo), Matbaa-i Bulak, 1248 AH (1833 AD). - 6, 236, 127, 52 pp. Contemporary full leather binding with fore-edge flap, coves blindstamped with borders and central medallions. Editio princeps of this important ethical treatise. The 16th-century Anatolian jurist and philosophical author Ala' al-Din 'Ali Kinalizade "was a very industrious writer. He wrote glossaries and commentaries on a series of theological works. He became famous by his ethical work 'Akhlak-i 'Ala'i' written in 972 (1564) for the Beylerbey of Syria, 'Ali Pasha, the original manuscript of which is in the library of Raghib Pasha in Stambul (No. 966). This work [.] was printed in Shawwal 1248 (February 1833) at Bulak [.] and besides translated either in full or in parts" (Brill). - Binding scuffed with traces of professional repairs; spine rebacked. Interior shows marked damp- and waterstains, but complete. Near-contemporary notes in Ottoman Turkish to flyleaf. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam IV, 1017. Journal Asiatique (1843) II, 40, no. 68. Zenker I, 1357 ("'alami" in error for "'ala'i"). Bursali Mehmed Tahir, Osmanli müellifleri I, 400f. OCLC 21712782. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

[Atlantic Trade]: [West Indies][ACCOUNT BOOK OF THE BRIGS NIMROD AND JASPER UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN HILL, 1826 - 1833] [Various places, including Antwerp, London, Havana, Pensacola, and New York, 1833. Twenty-one leaves, plus two additional manuscript leaves laid in. Folio. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, manuscript label on front board. Hinges cracked, boards somewhat soiled, spine and lower corner of rear board chipped. Bookseller's label on front pastedown. Very good. An interesting manuscript ship's log containing financial accounts for the brigs Nimrod and Jasper for an eight year period from 1826 to 1833, while they were under the command of a Capt. John Hill. The two ships made numerous voyages between the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. The present log book contains accounting of expenditures for journeys from London and Marseille to New York and Norfolk in 1827; from Antwerp to London in 1828; from Philadelphia to the West Indies in 1829; from Madeira to the Turks Islands in 1831; from the West Indies to Pensacola to Havana in 1832; from the Indies to New York in 1833; and several other similar voyages. The log also contains two copies of an 1832 letter written in Havana by Hill to merchants there inquiring about the price of molasses, and a list of port charges at several major way points. A fascinating artifact of trans-Atlantic trade in the 1820s and 1830s.

[LABOR HISTORY] [GENERAL TRADES' UNION] MOORE, ElyAddress Delivered Before the General Trades' Union of the City of New-York at the Chatham-street Chapel, Monday, December 2, 1833 New-York: Printed by Order of the Convention [by] James Ormond, [1833]. First Edition. Paperback. Scarce address delivered shortly after the founding of the General Trades' Union, by Moore, in August of the same year. The GTU is considered to be the first large trade union, headed by the delegates of nine craft trades. Moore, elected its first president, would go on to be a U.S. Representative from New York, from 1835 to 1839 and later, in 1845, president of the National Trade Union. The present document is possibly the first publication issued by the Union, the opening statement explinaing that "We have assembled on the present occasion, for the purpose of publicly proclaiming the motives which induced us to organize a General Union of the various trades and arts in this city and its victinity" (p. [7]): "We, in order to guard against the encroachments of aristocracy, to preserve our natural and political rights, to elevate our moral and intellectual condition, to promote our pecuniary interests, to narrow the line of distinction between the journeyman and employer...have deemed it expedient to form ourselves into a 'General Trades' Union'" (p. 10). Octavo (20.5cm.); disbound; 32pp. Textblock rather foxed and a bit dust-soiled, stitching somewhat loose but still holding, dampstaining along gutter, slightly later (1845) repeated ownership signature of a Robert Garlington of South Carolina College to title page with his notes on verso and p. [3]. Additional signature on p. [3] of E.A. Garlington (1853-1934), a United States General who served during the Indian Wars. Good or better.

ArkansasFIFTEEN VOLUMES OF LAWS AND JUDICIAL DECISIONS FROM THE FRONTIER TERRITORY AND STATE OF ARKANSAS, 1833 - 1861 a. ACTS PASSED AT THE EIGHTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORYOF ARKANSAS: WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE TOWN OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, AND ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, [1833]. Little Rock: Printed by William Woodruff, Printer to the Territory. 1834. 119, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Stitched, bit of blank inner margin wear. Later plain rear wrapper. Light foxing, some toning, untrimmed. Lower margin of second leaf trimmed closely, affecting a couple of letters. Good+.Allen 32. b. LAWS OF ARKANSAS TERRITORY, COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY J. STEELE AND J. M'CAMPBELL ESQ'S. (ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW;) UNDER THE DIRECTION AND SUPERINTENDANCE OF JOHN POPE ESQ. GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF ARKANSAS. Little Rock, Ark. Ter.: Printed by J. Steele, Esq. Printer to the Territory. 1835. [4], 562, [12 Index] pp, with the Territorial Seal. Light rubberstamp, light blindstamp to title page, a couple of other light blindstamps. Light toning and scattered, usually light, foxing. Very Good, in later library cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels [labels partly chipped]. This is the second and final compilation of the Territorial Laws of Arkansas [statehood occurred in 1836], after the 1821 printing. This compilation prints the U.S. Constitution with twelve Amendments; the Treaty of Cession with Louisiana; the Acts providing for the government of the Missouri Territory, of which Arkansas was originally a part; the Act establishing the Arkansas Territory as "a separate Territorial Government for the Southern part of the Territory of Missouri"; and, alphabetically by subject, the Laws of Arkansas Territory. "Horse and Negro Stealing" were serious crimes, punishable by death. A detailed Slave Code is printed, restricting travel, regulating meetings, punishing by death conspiracies to rebel, establishing slave patrols, but permitting free Negroes to keep a firearm. An Index is included. Allen 36. I Harv. Law Cat. 69. 135 Eberstadt 96. Babbitt 18. AI 30113 [5]. Not in Cohen. c. REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, ADOPTED AT THE OCTOBER SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SAID STATE, A.D. 1837... REVISED BY WILLIAM McK. BALL AND SAM. C. ROANE| NOTES AND INDEX BY ALBERT PIKE. Boston: 1838. xv, [1 blank], 956 pp, with the half title. A rubberstamp on blank portion of title page, else a pristine text. Very Good plus, in later buckram [title and institutional stamp on spine]. These are the State's first revised statutes, organized alphabetically by subject and providing a window on the activities and concerns of this new Frontier State. Arkansas entered the Union in 1836. Pike asserts, "In no State was ever such a revision more imperatively called for, more needful for the common weal." The laws had been "an unseemly and incongruous superstructure," with "crude and incongruous laws, hatched in prolific brains." A Code for "Negroes and Mulattoes" is included, with a definition of the latter term. As in a number of other States, "No free negro or mulatto shall hereafter be permitted to emigrate to or settle in this State" without posting a bond for his support and good behavior. The detailed Index consumes about 150 pages. The Laws are preceded by the U.S. and Arkansas Constitutions, the Treaty of Cession of Louisiana, the Act of Admission of Arkansas, the supplementing Compact and its acceptance, and Pike's Preface.I Harv. Law Cat. 69. Not in Cohen. d. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD, AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, [1838], AND ENDED ON MONDAY, THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, [1838]. Little Rock: Printed by Edward Cole, Printer to the State, 1839. iv, 144, xii pp. Disbound, rubberstamp on blank portion of title page, else a clean and Very Good copy. With Table of Contents and Index. This early Session passed laws creating and regulating banks, turnpike companies, corporations, railroads; created Senatorial Districts and apportioned representatives; enacted a variety of laws concerning the judiciary, as well as many other matters, including one statute encouraging the killing of wolves.Allen 71. e. ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER, [1840]; AND ENDED ON MONDAY, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER, [1840]. Little Rock: Printed by George H. Burnett, Printer to the State. 1840 [i.e., 1841]. v, [3 blanks], 118, ix, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, remnants along spine of original wrappers, else Near Fine. With Table of Contents and Index. This early Session passed laws regulating the State Bank, turnpike companies, private and public corporations [including the City of Little Rock], railroads; and enacting laws concerning taxation, the judiciary, and other subjects, including one statute permitting aliens to own stock in a corporation. Allen notes that, despite the imprint date, these Acts were actually printed in 1841. Allen 83. f. Pike, Albert [Reporter]: REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, AT JANUARY AND JULY TERMS, 1837, JANUARY AND JULY TERMS, 1838, AND JANUARY TERM, 1839. IN LAW AND EQUITY. VOL. I. Little Rock: Budd and Colby. 1840. Original sheep [rubbed, bit of chipping, hinges starting]. [7], [1 blank], 655, [1 blank] pp. Age-toned, scattered foxing and spotting; small hole at blank portion of title page [no text affected]. Several manuscript signatures in text. Good+. g. Pike, Albert [Reporter]: REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF LAW AND EQUITY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. BY ALBERT PIKE, COUNSELLOR AT LAW. VOL. II. Little Rock: Published by George H. Burnett. 1841. Original sheep [rubbed]. [6], [2 blanks], 639, [1 blank] pp. Several gatherings bound out of order but all present and accounted for; scattered foxing and spotting. Good+. These are the earliest reports of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, and their first collected printings. Arkansas became a State in 1836. "The first Reports of the new State, in the first years of her existence" [Eberstadt]. Each volume contains a Table of Cases and an Index. The cases recorded here reflect the issues that engaged this frontier southwestern State: commercial matters, land boundaries and claims, agriculture contracts, the rules of civil and criminal procedure, duties of State officers, commerce in slaves. Pike was a colorful and interesting man on the frontier. He served, as here, not only as the Reporter of Decisions, but also at various times a poet, teacher, brigadier general in the Confederate Army, newspaper editor, and high officer in the Freemasons. FIRST EDITIONS. Allen 85, 94. I Harv. Law Cat. 68. 114 Eberstadt 76. Not in Cohen. h. ACTS PASSED AT THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, [1842], AND ENDED ON SATURDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, [1843]. Little Rock: Printed by Eli Colby, Printer to the State. 1843. 243, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, else Near Fine. With Table of Contents and Index. Among the Session's more interesting achievements was an Act prohibiting the "emigration and settlement of Free Negroes, or Free Persons of Color, into this State;" an Act placing the State Bank of Arkansas in liquidation and forbidding it to issue any notes; similarly, an Act liquidating the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas; the abolition of imprisonment for debt; an Act establishing Common Schools; and an Act punishing anyone who attempts to entice away a slave. Resolutions seek the aid of the national government in protecting the frontier against marauding Indians.Allen 107. i. ACTS, MEMORIALS AND RESOLUTIONS, PASSED AT THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ON MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR, AND ENDED ON FRIDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE. Little Rock: Borland & Farley. 1845. vi, [2 blank], [9]-176pp. j. [bound with] ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS, PASSED AND AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ADOPTED, AT THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD... ON MONDAY THE SECOND DAY OF NOVEMBER [1846]... AND ENDED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER [1846]. Little Rock: B.J. Borden. 1846. viii, [9]-215pp. Bound together in modern tan buckram, title page of first item with rubberstamp. Very Good.Allen 127, 137. k. ACTS PASSED AT THE NINTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD... ON MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER [1852]... AND ENDED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF JANUARY [1853]. Arkadelphia, Arkansas: R.L. Pegues. 1853. viii, 333pp. Much material on law, commerce, slavery, lands, internal improvements, and other social relations in this southwestern frontier State. l. [bound with] ACTS PASSED AT THE TENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS... ON MONDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER [1854]... AND ENDED ON MONDAY, THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF JANUARY [1855]. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes. 1855. viii, 288pp. m. [bound with] ACTS PASSED AT THE ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS... ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER [1856]... AND ENDED ON THURSDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY [1857]. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes. 1857. viii, 197pp. Bound together in modern buckram, rubberstamp to second title page, Very Good.Allen 222, 276, 307. n. ACTS PASSED AT THE TWELFTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPITOL... ON MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER [1858], AND ENDED ON MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY [1859]. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes. 1859. vii, [1], 327pp. Modern tan cloth, bookplate, Very Good Allen 356. o. ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CAPITOL... ON MONDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER [1860], AND ENDED ON MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JANUARY [1861]. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes. 1861. xiv, [1], 472pp. Modern cloth [bookplate], light to moderate spotting, Good+.Allen 418 [not a Confederate imprint].

Shaw, Henry and Sir Frederic Madden.Illuminated Ornaments selected from the Manuscripts and early printed books from the sixth to the seventeenth centuries. Imperial 4to on largest paper (38 x 27. London: William Pickering (printed by Charles Whittingham), 1833. Imperial 4to on largest paper (38 x 27.5 cms.), lithographed titlepage heightened with hand coloring, printed titlepage, 18 pp. of text; 40 leaves of descriptions between 59 magnificent etched or lithographed plates heightened with printed and hand-coloring, 4 of the early plates with a highly burnished background of gold leaf; and many other plates illuminated with liquid gold, 1 addendum leaf. A very fresh copy, in its most desirable format, of a truly rare book in any of its three formats (uncolored, colored, hand-colored and illuminated with gold). Contemporary full brown polished calf beautifully rebacked, covers panelled in gilt, gilt edges, armorial bookplate of Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson. A superb copy with Robin de Beaumont's original description and price retained at the front. First edition, largest paper format, of Shaw's first book with color plates (his third book overall); regular copies measure 28 x 21 cms (approximately) and have less finished coloring and the gold areas are printed in yellow. The work was issued in 12 monthly parts each containing 5 plates; it began in June 1830 and was issued at 3s 6d plain, 7s 6d colored, "and a very limited number will be printed in Imperial Quarto, and the ornaments more highly finished in opaque colors heightened with gold, at 15s each part." (prospectus)."In the large-paper copies, one can only say that the results are hardly less beautiful than the mediaeval originals; they are hand-illuminated with the utmost skill, and the gold used is gold leaf... this does make a considerable difference." (McLean). Ing quotes Hardie p.259: "With their careful selection of pigments and their faithful colouring, Shaw's reproductions attain almost to the brilliancy of an original manuscript." In all, an extraordinary book, described by A.N.L. Munby as "the most sensible and coherent essay about miniature painting at the time" and endorsing its continuing usefulness. In the same vein, Beckwith comments: "the first of many British 19th-century studies of illuminated manuscripts... such books opened the public's eyes to the aesthetic and historical value of manuscript arts... the format was a model for 19th-century studies of the history and methods of illumination... a landmark in the diffusion of information about manuscript arts and their history and made a significant contribution to Victorian bibliomania." This may in fact be the very first book on illumination and its history to have color plates, and can certainly be said to have had a profound influence on early Victorian taste in and appreciation of illuminated manuscripts. Abbey, Life, 234. Keynes p. 89. McLean, Victorian Book Design, p.65-66. Warren p. 155. Ing, Charles Whittingham Printer, 9: "Magnificent large paper copy with gold leaf." Friedman, Color Printing in England, 39 and illus. Beckwith, Victorian Bibliomania, 14. This copy purchased from Robin de Beaumont in 2003 and sold; repurchased in 2017. Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson was the Ulster King of Arms, the Principal Herald of all Ireland, and the Registrar of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick. His biography is extraordinary both as a very distinguished soldier and as an artist who created " Titania's Palace. This chef-d'œuvre en miniature, completed over some eighteen years, was unique in being neither a luxurious dolls' house nor a model of an existing or possible future structure. It covered a space of 63 square feet, and was finished in every conceivable detail. Wilkinson developed, with the aid of an etchers' glass, a technique for decoration he called 'mosaic painting': minute dots of watercolour, irregular in shape like mosaic tesserae, about 1000 to the square inch. The palace was opened in 1923 by Queen Mary and was much admired by the public. It was exhibited not only in the United Kingdom but also in the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand, raising thousands of pounds for children's charities: the raison d'être of the entire exercise." (DNB)

Belyavsky, F.I.[ARCTIC] Poyezdka k Ledovitomu moryu [i.e. A Voyage to the Icy Sea] Moscow: Typ. of Lazarevs' Institute of Foreign Languages, 1833. Xv, iii, 259 pp. 21x13,5 cm. With additional copper engraved title page (decorated with two vignettes), four hand coloured folding lithographed plates (including a frontispiece; two signed and dated by the artist), and a folding copper engraved plate of snow flakes. Period style full leather with gilt tooled ornamental borders on boards and the spine (spine with gilt lettering). Lithographed title page with a minor chip of lower outer corner restored, title page with expert repair of central blank gutter margin, on verso imprint page with a few letters affected, but overall a very good handsome copy. First edition. Very rare with only four paper copies found in Worldcat. The book has never been translated into other languages, the only reprint edition was published in Tyumen in 2004. Interesting early account of the Siberian Arctic with a description of travels down the Ob River to the Gulf of Ob in the Kara Sea. The author Frants Belyavsky - a Russian doctor of Polish origin - travelled down the Irtysh and Ob Rivers from Tobolsk to Beryozov (nowadays Beryozovo) and Obdorsk (Salekhard) to survey the epidemic of syphilis among the natives and Russian settlers, and try to help its victims. The first cases of syphilis among the Samoyeds (Nenets people) and Ostyaks (Khanty people) in Beryozov were recorded in 1816-1817 (Belyavsky, p. 133-141). Starting in 1822 an annual trip by a doctor of the Medical Office of the Tobolsk Governorate had been organized, the doctor would report on the spread of the disease and provide necessary medication to the infected people. The treatment was quite effective and if in the early years ''there was not almost anyone among the Ostyaks who would not be infected'', in early 1828 out of over 21,000 people there were not more than 611 sick ones (Belyavsky, p. 139). Belyavsky took on the annual tour as a doctor in the service of the Tobolsk Medical Office in the early months of 1828. In his book he describes the voyage down the Irtysh and Ob Rivers from Tobolsk to Beryozov, giving interesting notes on the main villages along the way - Bronnikovo, Uvat, Yurovskoye, Demyanskoye, Denshchikovskoye, Samarovo, and others; separate chapters are dedicated to Beryozov - an important old post on the northern Russian fur trade route - and its historical sites; native settlements on the way to the Obdorsk fort, and the fort itself. Most of the book is dedicated to a thorough description of Ostyaks (Khanty) and Samoyeds (Nenets) - their origin, settlements, dwellings; appearance, physical and mental skills; language, manners and customs, clothes, food, occupations, way of entertainment, riches, state taxes, chiefs, system of justice, religion and shamans, and sicknesses (with a separate chapter on the syphilis epidemic). The book is supplemented with lists of mammals, birds, and plants native to northwestern Siberia ''from Obdorsk to the coast of the Icy Ocean''; a copy of a letter written by Alexander von Humboldt to the head of Tobolsk Medical Office whom he got to know during his stay in the city in 1829; a Russian-Ostyak dictionary; and an explanation of over twenty local terms. The book is illustrated with four attractive hand coloured lithographed plates showing 'Ostyak prince Taishin' with a small view of the Obdorsk fort underneath (frontispiece); 'Ostyaks during hunting', 'Samoyeds. Shaman. Chief Paygol' (both signed and dated 1832); and a view of a Nenets settlement showing a yurt, an idol in a tree, hunters, reindeers, a dog sled, a person playing a musical instrument, and others. Two lithographs are signed 'Zheren. 1832' - by a member of the Zheren family - Russian painters and graphic artists, most likely by Ivan Ivanovich Zheren (18th century - after 1850), a watercolour artist and lithographer. There is also an engraved view of different forms of snow crystals from the shores of the 'Icy Sea'. Overall a very interesting rare and beautiful book on the Russian Arctic. Belyavsky graduated from St. Petersburg Medical-Surgical Academy in 1824 and was sent to the Tobolsk Medical Office where he served for three and a half years. Later he worked in the Catherine Hospital in Moscow, then opened his own clinic where he used galvanoplasty as treatment, and in early 1830 travelled to the Solovetsky monastery.

AnonymousThe Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog John Harris, London 1833 - With protective wrap made by Marjorie Moon herself, this is her own copy with her ex.libris, brilliant condition, virtually mint, rarely found in this state. Sixteen leaves printed on one side only, numbered 2-16 with verses, and half-page woodcut illustrations finely hand-coloured. Inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1833. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

[Drach, (David) Paul Louis Bernard.] (Rabbin Converti).Troisiéme Lettre d'un Rabbin Converti, aux Israélites ses Frères, sur les Motifs de sa Conversion. Prophétie d'Isaïe VII. 14. Expliquées par les Traditions de la Synagogue. Rome, l'Auteur, au collége de St. Bonaventure; Bourliè, and Paris, Bricon, etc., 1833.. Royal octavo. Pp. xvii, 364. Footnotes, errata. Bound in the original printed wrappers, these spotted, bit chipped, strengthened along spine, manuscript shelf-label. (Fore-edge of first few leaves bit browned; old institutional stamps to blank prelims.) In a very good condition, preserved in the original state, with interior in overall fine condition. ~ First edition. Marrano Paul Louis Bernard Drach (David), (1791, Strasburg-1868, Rome), a Talmudic scholar, Grand-Rabbi, a well-known converted Jew. In 1823 he renounced Judaism in the presence of Archbishop Quélen, was baptized, and received his first Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Confirmation. In 1827 appointed librarian of the Propaganda in Rome, an office he held until his death. Rosenthal, in his "Convertitenbilder" writes: "The conversion of this learned Jew is undoubtedly one of the most important conversions effected by the grace of God during this century in France. It became the source of salvation to many of his coreligionists." Of Drach's numerous writings, "Lettres d'un rabbin converti aux Israélites, ses frères" is the most important. Highly anti-Semitic, it incriminates the Jews as practicioners of ritual murder. "The zeal of these Rabbis goes as far as dedicating to death all those who follow the doctrine of the Trinity, and consequently all Christian Israelites," Drach writes. In his "Harmonie entre l'église et la synagogue" (Paris, 1844) he even asserts that the Jews of Damascus had been responsible for the ritual murder of the Capuchin Fr. Thomas in 1840, and that their guilt had been established beyond doubt. Exceedingly scarce. OCLC lists only 3 copies worldwide, one of which is incomplete.

Beaumont, WilliamExperiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Three woodcut engravings in text, 280 pp. Octavo. original beige boards with blue cloth spine; covers detached, ownership signature excised from top of title page, foxing throughout. A pioneering work on digestion, based on experiments with patient Alexis St. Martin, whose stomach was exposed by a gunshot wound. Beaumont (1785-1853), a United States Army surgeon, was the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach in a living person. During the patients recovery, through a permanent fistula, Beaumont was able to observe the process of digestion. "...Beaumont was the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach in vivo. His work on the subject was the most important before Pavlov."- Garrison-Morton 989; Dibner 130; Fulton, pp. 186-190; Horblit 10; Lilly, p. 185; Wellcome 2:123; Waller 805; Norman Library 152; Norman, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 61.

Say, Jean Baptiste; Francois Charles Louis Comte.Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume. Publié par Charles Comte, son gendre, etc., etc. Paris, Chamerot, 1833.. Octavo. Pp. xxviii, 472. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering-piece to spine (bit chipped); cloth discoloured, minute stain at bottom of cover, corner-tips bumped, one at bottom worn, few pencil annotations. A very good copy. ~ First edition in the original binding. Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), French economist. Was appointed to a post in Napoleon's government in 1799, later was a professor of political economy at the Collège de France. Say edited the journal "La Décade", in which he wrote many articles promoting the ideas of Adam Smith. Say's Law, the law of markets, whereby supply creates its own demand for goods, went unchallenged for a long time. His extensive writings include his first major book, "Traité d'économie politique" (1803; English translation 1821); "Catéchisme d'économie politique" (1815); and "Course complet d'économie politique pratique" (1828). Francois Charles Louis Comte (1782-1837), co-authored also T. R. Malthus's "Essai sur le principe de population". Goldsmith 27875. Kress C.3603. OCLC 6261732. Not in Einaudi. Provenance: from the library of Dr. W. Neurath, with his calligraphed signature to first free endpaper.

Say, Jean Baptiste; Francois Charles Louis Comte.Mélanges et correspondance d'économie politique. Ouvrage posthume. Publié par Charles Comte, son gendre, etc., etc. Paris, Chamerot 1833 - Octavo. Pp. xxviii, 472. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering-piece to spine (bit chipped); cloth discoloured, minute stain at bottom of cover, corner-tips bumped, one at bottom worn, few pencil annotations. A very good copy. ~ First edition in the original binding. Jean Baptiste Say (1767-1832), French economist. Was appointed to a post in Napoleon's government in 1799, later was a professor of political economy at the Collège de France. Say edited the journal "La Décade", in which he wrote many articles promoting the ideas of Adam Smith. Say's Law, the law of markets, whereby supply creates its own demand for goods, went unchallenged for a long time. His extensive writings include his first major book, "Traité d'économie politique" (1803; English translation 1821); "Catéchisme d'économie politique" (1815); and "Course complet d'économie politique pratique" (1828). Francois Charles Louis Comte (1782-1837), co-authored also T. R. Malthus's "Essai sur le principe de population". Goldsmith 27875. Kress C.3603. OCLC 6261732. Not in Einaudi. Provenance: from the library of Dr. W. Neurath, with his calligraphed signature to first free endpaper. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Greswell, William Parr.A view of the early Parisian Greek press; including the lives of the Stephani; notices of other contemporary Greek printers of Paris; and various particulars of the literary and ecclesiastical history of their times. Oxford: Pr. by S. Collingwood for D.A. Talboys, 1833. 8vo (23 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: xix, [1], 412 pp. II: vii, [1], 413, [1] pp. First edition of this account of the Estiennes and other important printers of their milieu, including much information on, excerpts from, and commentary on classical literature (many quotations being supplied in English translation in addition to the original languages) as well as details of political, cultural, and religious history of the time. The preface is signed by the Rev. William Parr Greswell, known as a scholar of Parisian typography, and the title-page attributes the editing to his son Edward Greswell. While Brunet was not wholly convinced regarding the Greswells' exactitude, he nevertheless concluded that this work made for an interesting read. Bindings: 20th-century speckled calf framed and panelled 17th century–style in double blind fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons, middle panels in plain calf, innermost panels framed with blind roll; spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, raised bands, and blind-tooled composite motifs in compartments => done by a modern master. Back pastedown of vol. I with pencilled note reading "Bound by Bernard Middleton [/] Feb. '62." Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear. Brunet, II, 1735; Lowndes, IV, 943; NSTC 2G21923. Bindings as above; joints and edges rubbed, spines evenly sunned, minor scuffing to sides. Front pastedown of vol. I with pencilled annotation of old purchase price. Page edges untrimmed; a few leaves in vol. II with very short tears from outer margins, not touching text; faint age-toning and intermittent instances of light spotting, mostly but not entirely in upper outer corners. Vol. I with one 20th-century pencilled marginal annotation, vol. II with one pencilled date correction. => A good example of 19th-century scholarship on printing and literary history, here in a lovely demonstration of 20th-century binding technique.

Joseph StoryCommentaries on the Constitution of the United States; With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution. Abridged by the Author, for the Use of Colleges and High Schools Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833. Modern maroon buckram, gilt, light browning and foxing, else a very good copy; Cohen 2915 Only edition of Story's effort to distil his 'Commentaries on the Constitution', reflecting his "almost unshakable optimism in the perfecting power of education" and his wish that constitutional principles be infused into the minds of the young